China claims that the island is a part of its territory. According to Fox News, after a June 19 meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping, Antony Blinken said, “We remain opposed to any unilateral changes to the status quo by either side. We continue to expect the peaceful resolution of cross-strait differences.”.
Despite Blinken’s remark, a bipartisan task force is being formed by the House Foreign Services Committee to streamline the delivery process of military equipment to critical allies like Taiwan. The task force would “modernize U.S. foreign military sales” that are “plagued with delays.”
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On Tuesday, the task force’s name was announced as TIGER, an acronym for Technical, Industrial, and Governmental Engagement for Readiness, according to Committee Chairman Republican Michael McCaul of Texas.
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Co-leading the task force is Democrat Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts. He said, “Our partners, like Taiwan, order American military equipment because they need it. They should receive that hardware as quickly as possible.” This would mean the bipartisan task force would need to push through roadblocks due to regulations to provide allies and partners with streamlined shipping routes to deliver military provisions.
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Republican Rep. Michael Waltz from Florida, TIGER task force leader, said, “For years, U.S. foreign military sales have been plagued with delays that have put many of our allies and partners across the globe at risk.”
According to Fox News, the United States approved a $619 million military provision sale in March to Taiwan. In it were 100 AGM-88B HARM missiles and 200 anti-aircraft Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air missiles. This came after 100-200 more troops were added in February in preparation for a potential attack from China, bolstering Taiwan’s training program.
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Missouri’s Republican Senator Josh Hawley wrote in a letter to Blinken that the threat from China towards Taiwan “requires us to expedite delivery to Taiwan of the weapons it needs to defend itself.”
Last year, a diversion of weapons to Ukraine was blamed for the backlog of military shipments to Taiwan by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
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Moulton said, “We will examine where Congress needs to cut bureaucratic red tape and where the industry needs to invest in addressing bottlenecks. All parties will be held accountable so that equipment gets out the door in time for it to be relevant on the battlefield.”
The State Department revealed that in 2022, $205.6 billion in military equipment sales to foreign governments was up by 49%.
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